Flower & Garden Magazine
JANUARY, 1960
Flower & Garden Magazine – An Active Time of Planting, Pruning January is an important month for planting or transplanting trees and shrubbery. In the South the period of dormancy is so short that it had best be done at once.
Many summer flowering things not already pruned may be pruned now. Vitex, crape-myrtle and altheas may be grown as standards. Remove all low growth on the main trunk and top them severely. Cassia (corymbose) is lovely grown as a standard.
A new althea, ‘Bluebird,’ is said to be a floriferous bloomer and vigorous grower. The flowers are five inches across, wide, saucer-like and blue.
